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Kasai looked over at her team from the forest edge and leaned on the trees trunk.
"So this is the team Karei-sama thought best for me, eh?" She said aloud, "Lets see. It appears that I got a stuck up genius" She said taking in Akaaka's appearance, "A hot-headed fire breather." She said looking Kaji over, "And a closest perv. Wonderful." She said with sarcasm.
Akaaka gave Kasai a venomous glare. Kaji glared at her with a hint of killer intent behind the sure rage. And Aoiro was red in the face.
"What did you just call us?" Kaji demanded hot-headedly.
"Exactly what you are. Well, maybe not the Youma boy. But most Youma men do you their 'gifts' for such reasons." Kasai said just talking. Aoiro's look of rage intensified and he would have charged at Kasai if Akaaka hadn't appeared behind him and grabbed him by his arm. She pulsed her chakra threw his body which canceled out his own chakra circulation.
"Kasai-san." Akaaka said ignoring the glare she was getting from her teammates, "Karei-dono asked us to give you a package."
"Oh? Really? Well, hand it over." She said holding out her hand. Akaaka leaned in closer to Aoiro.
"Give her the package and don't do anything stupid." She hissed. Aoiro breathed in a shaky breath before walking over to Kasai and putting the package in her hand. Kasai grinned at the boy and opened up the package before breaking out in a fit of laughter.
"Thats Karei-dono." She laughed before putting the paper into her pocket, "Now to business. All three of you have studied hard. Gone threw many hardships. But unfortunately only one of you will become a sakuragakura ninja." She said with an evil grin.
All three genin looked at her with utter looks of horror and shock.
"What?" Kaji demanded, "Then what the hell was all this work we did in the academy for?"
"Sakuragakura can't afford to be picky." Akaaka said, "There are too few of it shinobi. Without a large arm to support it population, Sakuragakura will be over run and taken over by one of the other nations. So why only allow three academy graduates to pass every year?"
Kasai's evil grin passed and a serious look came to her face, "Our numbers are indeed small but they are steadily growing. Do you know why?"
The three genin shook their heads no.
"Its because we only take a few of you academy graduates and let you be sakuragakura genin. By being picky, as you call it Akaaka, we only have the strong in our forces which mean that we last longer on the battle field then someone we just let in because they could make a clone or throw a kunai. Our systems are set this way so the strong are on the battle front while the weaker stay out of the way until they are strong enough to join their comrades." Kasai explained.
"Social Darwinism in short." Akaaka said gritting her teeth.
"Exactly." Kasai said getting her smile back, "Now shall we proceed to the test?"
The genin swallowed loudly and shook their heads.
"Very well. The test is simple." She said before hold up three balls in her right hand, "Your mission is to find one of these balls in the forest. I will be there to stop you and will even give you a ten minute head start before coming after you. If you do not by the end of the timed period you will fail and no matter how hard you try we will not take you back in the academy to join Sakuragakura's ranks. I'm not done." She said when she noticed Kaji was about to protest, "If you do get one and manage to hold onto it until the end of the timed period you will be allowed to try again for genin in six months." She said before opening on of the balls to reveal a silver bell, "Inside the balls is a bell. Two balls have a silver bell and one has a gold bell. However gets the gold bell will be the one to receive their head band and will be under my teaching. You will have exactly two hours to find one of the balls and hold onto it before this alarm goes off" She finished closing up the ball and bringing out an alarm that she set down on a near by rock.
"Thats preposterous!" Akaaka shouted, "Finding that small of an object over this huge terrain while fighting off a jonin? Thats impossible for us!"
"And the fact that we only have two hours is unreasonable. Give us more time to complete to mission." Kaji demanded. Kasai raised a curious eyebrow before disappearing from where she was. Kaji went to look around for her when he felt cold steel rest on his neck then something warm rest of his back.
"I could just end your test right now." She whispered softly, "This is the test everyone has had to go threw. Your no different. Now if you want to keep your life shut up." She said darkly.
Kaji swallowed loudly and was shocked when the kunai and Kasai's presence on his back disappeared and she reappeared in front of him.
"Now." she said, "Anyone else want to object?" When no of them spoke up Kasai smirked, "Then lets begin." She said throwing up the balls. Three small dragons quickly zoomed by, each taking one of the balls and racing into the sky.
"They'll drop the balls at some point so don't worry." Kasai said smirking at the shocked Genin, "I'd get going. Or else you'll never know where to start." She said. Akaaka was the first to recover and took off after one of the dragons. Aoiro and Kaji recovered soon after her and quickly went to do the same. Kasai smirked at the three genin as they disappeared in the forest.
She was about to sit down when she felt someone grab her around the waist from behind.
"We both know they'll never complete a mission of this level. No one has yet." Naruto said resting his head on Kasai's shoulder. Kasai held onto Naruto's arm while bringing her other hand up to pet his face.
"True. By the way, what are you doing here? Aren't you suppose to be supervising the building of the Unabara clan compound?" She asked looking back into Naruto's deep blue eyes.
"I'm on a lunch break." He said with a smirk before kissing her neck. Kasai smiled and turned around in his embrace.
"Well you better get back to work. Your distracting me from mine." She said. When naruto gave her a disappointed look, she kissed him lightly on the lips and he disappeared in a puff of smoke. Kasai let out a small chuckle before turning back to the forest.
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Rei watched his team go to chase after his chameleons as they easily disappeared with the balls. This will be entertaining to say the least. He thought before looking down at his watch. They had another three minutes, then the real test would begin.
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Furai finished the cheese and crackers she had brought for the wait and stood up.
"Its time." She mumbled before facing the beach her team had disappeared in. She closed her eyes and opened them. Everything slowed down and when Furai focused she could see her team. They were all digging around in the sand, searching about one hundred and fifty meters away. She chuckled to herself before drawing her bow and making an arrow. Taking careful aim she shot at the youma boy.
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Akaaka came to a stop when she sensed someone's charka fall. Shit. They meant it when they said they'd be there to stop us. She thought hiding in a bush. No choice but to take extreme cautious measures. She thought making several hand signs.
"Kage Bushin no Jutsu." she said softly as five more of her appeared. They all jumped off while one stayed in the bush.
–Almost two hours later–
Furai set down an unconscious and tied up Akai next to an also unconscious and tied up Soro. She looked down at her watch for the time. Ten more minutes. She thought. Ten minutes until its over.
With that thought in mind she focused and searched for her last student while a clone stood near by, guarding her captives.
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Akaaka raised her head as information can to her from her last clone. So she's got Aoiro now as well. She thought. I expected as much from kaji but I didn't expect her to be able to catch Aoiro. And she made it look so easy. She thought. Two hours of hiding in a bush and making shadow clones had completely drained her of her chakra. She gritted her teeth and made the same hand signs as before. She summoned the last of her chakra.
"Kage bushin no jutsu." She said hoarsely as the clone appeared. It went to jump out of the bush but while it was in the air a senbon hit it in the neck causing it to disappear.
"So this is where you've been hiding." Akaaka heard Kasai's voice say. Akaaka curse her luck as she heard the jonin come closer but she was so deprived of chakra that she began to blackout. The last thing she saw was Kasai's shoes before she went unconscious.
Kasai looked down at the girl with a sad smile, "You pushed yourself to hard kid. You could never out smart me." She said recalling how during this entire trial she had to have a clone watch her captives. She's defiantly sakuragakura shinobi material.
"The other reason the shinobi of sakuragakura have such a long life expectancy. We looked after our comrades." Kasai mumbled before picking up the girl. Her clones smirked and picked up her other students and they all headed towards the hospital where she met Rei and Furai who had just dropped off their students.
"So how are yours?" Kasai asked Furai.
"Skilled. Especially with their blood limits. Those Ookami boys really are something. They fight a lot like Kiba." Furai said with a smile, "What about your Rei?"
"I believe they're skilled enough to make it." He said with a small smile, "And yours Kasai?"
"Well. They were overconfident and that would have killed them in normal situations but I think I can break them of that. Other than that, they're a pretty good bunch." She said with a smirk.
"So I take it that means they all passed?" Asked Karei as she walked over to the three Jonin.
Kasai smiled at her teacher, "I believe so." She said.
"Well then. You had better tell them when and where your cells meeting will be." Karei said which made Furai chuckle.
"We took care of that." She said looking into the room where all nine genin slept. By their beds was a small bunch of flowers, a note, and a sakuragakura head band.
Karei let out a chuckle, "So how about we go out to lunch now?" She asked before holding out her hand, "Your invitations?" She asked with an evil grin.
The jonins smiled as they pulled out the paper they had received earlier that day and handed them to her.
"Lets go." Kasai said as the adults left the hospital.
Later that day Karei sat back in her chair enjoying the rays of light that hit her back. It wasn't everyday that she finished enough of her work that she could sit back and relax. She let out a sigh of content and took a sip of the sake that sat next to her. She was about to pull out her favorite book when there was a knock at her door.
"Enter." she said in her demanding voice. Naruto, Kiba, and Neji all walked into the office with tired looks, "hm? What are you guys doing back so soon?" Kurei asked.
"We're here to give the report and rest a bit." Neji said, "Like you suggested."
Karei felt a bead of sweat slid down her face as she recalled telling them that.
"Oh, yeah. Sorry it slipped my mind. Well? Report!" she said recovering from her moment of forgetfulness. Kiba and naruto felt a bead of sweat slid down their own faces as Karei went from playful to serious in almost 0.5 seconds.
"Well." Neji began, "the construction is doing fairly well. The Unabara clan is large and everyone seems willing to help. I estimate it'll be..."
Neji was cut off as a Chishio clan member wearing the sakuragakura head band charged into the room.
"Karei-sama! There is a large group of unknown ninja heading this way. And from what the reports say, they're strong!" The male reported. Karei felt her face go from shock to angry.
"Have all shinobi report to the gates. They are not allowed to cross over until I get there. Go now!" Kurei ordered.
The Chishio ninja quickly left and within moments the sound of the alarm echoed threw Sakuragakura. The civilians began to quickly race to the beaches where members of the Unabara clan were already assisting them with crossing to the islands.
"Neji! Kiba! Naruto! Come with me!" Kurei ordered already half out the window. The three Jinchuuriki nodded and quickly followed Kurei out the window and raced to the gates.
By the time they got there a majority of Sakuragakura's shinobi were there and the civilians had cleared out of that area. Some were being looked over by paramedics while others waited patiently for Karei's order.
"Karei-sama!" Karei heard a familiar voice call.
"Hikari?" Karei asked as the pregnant woman appeared besides her. Not far behind her the other Jinchuuriki followed suit.
"What's going on Karei-sama?" Hikari asked, "Why is the invasion alarm going off?"
"Our scouts have reported a large group of powerful shinobi heading towards our front gates." Karei said. The Jinchuuriki all grabbed their weapons.
"It looks like its time to kick ass then, eh Ryo?" Yami asked his companion. The tiger growled at the gate as if daring who ever was coming to do their worst.
"Hikari. You should stay out of this." Naruto said, "Itachi would kill us if something happened to you."
"Leave my well being to me." Hikari spat back. Karei smirked but the smirk quickly passed when a sakura ninja let out a cry as he appeared in flight through the portal.
"Prepare to attack!" Karei shouted. Damn it. And just ten minutes ago I was enjoying some sake in the sun light after a wonderful lunch with Rei, Furai, and Kasai. She thought.
The Jinchuuriki drew their weapons and soon the shinobi behind them did as well. Kurei prepared to use her special jutsu and all was quiet as the sakura ninja waited. Then suddenly multiple figure began to appear in the portal.
Karei waited as several kunai and shuriken went flying by at the figures. Karei was about to give the sound to attack when she felt a very familiar chakra pattern. Another huge spray of weapons came forth and knocked all the kunai the sakura ninja had thrown.
"Is this really how you welcome people?" A female voice said. The sakura shinobi all wore looks of surprise but it was the Jinchuuriki and Kurei who were the most shocked.
Before them stood Tsunade, Hana, Anko, Rock lee, Sakura, Shikamaru, Choji, Hinata, Shino, Tenten, Asuna, Kurenai, Kakashi, Gai, and Iruka.
"Eh?...Obaa-chan?" Naruto said shocked. Tsunade glared at the blonde as her temple throbbed.
"Yes its us. Sakuragakura's closest allies. Yet when we come to see you we get attacked by your shinobi. How do you explain this?" Tsunade asked in general.
Kurei smiled and stood up properly, "It's alright everyone. It seems this was a false alarm." she said. The sakura ninja all traded looks before putting down their weapons.
"But tell me this Tsunade." Kurei began, "Why are you here?"
"Can't an old teacher visit her student? Besides if you don't want these supplies then we'll just take them back." Tsunade said wickedly. Hikari and Kaira chuckled.
"Everyone! Tell the residents its ok to come back now. And that we have guests." Kaira said. The shinobi all straightened until they looked like sticks poking out of the ground.
"Hai! Kaira-sama!" a majority said before they all went to do as ordered. The nine Jinchuuriki looked over at the leaf ninja.
"Its been a while." Kaira said glaring at Ino.
"Indeed it has." The blonde shot back. Soon the two girls were shooting insults back and forth at each other. Soon Garra had to hold Kaira back while Lee held back Ino.
Kasai looked over at Shino, "Let me guess. Fire proof?" She asked wickedly.
"I learned my lesson back then." He said hiding behind his glasses.
Kiba smirked at Shikamaru, "Hay there chicken boy."
Shikamaru smirked as he extended his hand which kiba shook.
"Such a pain. As always." Shikamaru mumbled making kiba's smirk grow.
Hinata and Neji shook hands.
"Its good to see you again cousin." Neji said.
"It is. And this time I wont go down so easily." Hinata said with a small smirk. Neji's grin grew.
Dana watched choji stuff food in his face, "You haven't changed." She said.
"Neither have you. Still got those mouths on your palms?" He asked munching on a strip of jerky. Dana felt her temple throb at the question.
Rei walked over to Tenten with a smile, "You aim is as sharp as even. My only question is how can you lug around that thing?" He asked motioning to the giant scroll that now lay on the ground.
Tenten smiled at him, "I ask myself that question sometimes."
Sakura watched Hikari intently and Hikari watched her back before tilting her head to a side.
"You've gotten stronger." She said before smiling, "good."
"What was the purpose of using that genjutsu on me? From the chunin exams all those years ago." Sakura asked. Hikari's smile faded.
"To teach you that the world isn't like you would think." She sad seriously before smiling again, "And besides, if I had you figured out like I thought I did. You would have never forgotten what I said and pushed yourself to get stronger. And looky here. It worked."
Sakura didn't seem shocked by what Hikari said and continued to watch her as Anko came up and greeted the girl. So in the end. She thought analyzing what Hikari had said. In the end. She was trying to help me by waking me to the real world. She thought before a small smile came to her lips. Damn. Now I owe her a debt. Sakura thought turning to walk towards Tsunade, Iruka, and Karei. "So, little one. It seems like Itachi finally got into your pants." Anko said with an evil smirk, noting Hikari's swelled stomach. Hikari let out a chuckle.
"And I'm paying for it now." She said getting a laugh from Anko.
Karei let out an amused chuckle as she walked over to Tsunade and Iruka to shake the Hokage's hand.
"You know. If you were perhaps an hour earlier you could have seen the sakuragakura version of our graduation testing. It was quite amusing." Kurei teased before noticing Sakura, "Why is this Sakura? My have you grown. And it seems you've grown into a womanly figure to boot!"
Sakura chuckled and bowed to Karei, "Its been a while Karei-san." She said politely with a smile.
Tsunade chuckled, "She's quiet the fast learner. I can now see why you thought she would surpass us one day." Tsunade teased but that bit of information was news to Sakura as shown by the shocked look she gave Karei. Karei chuckled when she heard a familiar voice.
"Iruka?" Hikaru said appearing out of the crowd. At the call of his name Iruka slowly turned to see who had spoken and his eyes widened when they rested on Hikaru's face.
"I'm sorry but who is this Karei?" Tsunade asked.
"My apologies. This is Hikaru Unabara. The leader..."
"The leader of the Unabara clan." Iruka said cutting Karei off, "And my mother."
A soft smile came to Hikaru's face, "So you still recognize me?" She asked happily. Iruka bit back tears as he quickly went to his mother and hugged her.
"How could I forget?" He mumbled. Tsunade looked at the two shocked while Karei smiled understandingly. Hikaru stroked Iruka's hair as both shinobi began to sob. They began to ask each other questions but Tsunade couldn't hear any of them as the rumblings sound of a huge crowd came closer.
"Come on." Karei said, "We will have to explain all this to the citizens."
"And then throw a party." Sakura said more to herself then anyone. The two kages looked at her shocked before breaking out laughing.
"She's defiantly our student." They laughed when Sakura gave them confused looks. When she understood Sakura smiled and follow her teachers into a night of partying.
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